Author's Note (Please Read)
The fair number of reviews that are concerned if TSoS is going to end soon got me a little confused initially, so I went to read through some of the latest reviews. Looking at the reviews for TSoS so far got me to realise that there is probably quite a number of you who do not have the habit of reading the ANs at the end of every chapter, because if you did read the ANs for chapter 11 to 13, you would have known that TSoS is far from ending. In fact, the story barely started.
So, I decided to post an AN at the top of the chapter just this once in order to grab your full and undivided attention.
Make no mistake, I'm very happy and touched that so many of you like reading TSoS. It warms my heart that my story can brighten someone's day, no matter how few, and the positive reviews are what keeps me going. That aside, for those who really do not know about it, I do have a total of an additional six other pokemon stories that I had written and you can easily find them on my profile page. And then you might ask, what's so special about them?
The answer is that the seven stories are all interconnected and taking place in the same universe. In fact, the stories are all going to have a major crossover soon. TSoS is merely a part of an even larger story that I had come up with. Each of the seven stories serves to tell the big story from the perspective of the mc of the particular story you choose to read. In the case of TSoS, you will be reading about the plot of the big story from Volkner's perspective and seeing his side of things. Whatever you had read till now is only an introduction to his past. What I'm embarking on is a crazy and ambitious project, but many of you have been supportive of the idea so far from what I can tell so I will try not to disappoint.
For those of you who only love to read TSoS and nothing else, do not worry that you will be forced to read any of the other six stories. TSoS will still be here as a separate story of its own and you can read it like any other story without needing to worry that you will miss out on something important simply because you did not read the other stories. I will also try my best to ensure that TSoS can remain as a standalone story on its own without needing to over rely on the other six and the same principle applies to those six stories too. However, TSoS only tells the story from Volkner's perspective. If you are the type who really wants to know the full overarching plot of whatever is going to happen next, or curious to read the big story from the perspective of another mc, reading the other stories will then be necessary.
Again, I stress that TSoS will still be here and it is far from complete. There is no pressure to read the other six stories if you do not feel like it. Read the other six stories only if you are interested in knowing more about the insane pokemon world that I am building up in my mind. That is all I really want to say in this AN.
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It seems that my naggy and long winded nature had reared its head again, so I will end the AN here. As usual, I hope you will enjoy this chapter.
After all, the Sun of Sunyshore is about to rise again.
She is starting to have a very bad feeling.
The Lilycove Invasion that had taken place in Hoenn aside, there's also the attack on Johto National Park a few months prior conducted by Team Rocket. Those are incidents that nobody will ever forget for a long while. The images shown on TV shortly after the attacks had ended had left quite an impression on anyone who saw it.
The next big event that will be happening in Indigo is the upcoming National Day that will take place in a few weeks. While she is glad that National Day is a public holiday, which means that she now has time to spend with her husband, she hopes that it will not be an event targeted by terrorist groups. The reason why Johto National Park was targeted because it was holding the Bug Catching Contest, an event that drew in a large crowd and hence a prime target for terrorist activities.
Hopefully this year's National Day will proceed smoothly like the prior years.
She walked through the winding path of the reserve she built with her husband. Technically it is her husband and Jarvis doing most of the work, but she did help too! Steely helped flattened the land and dug the tunnels to lay the cables and wires!
Even without spotting them, she knows that many species of wild pokemon are watching her from wherever they may be hiding at. She felt that they are a little overprotective of her and Volkner, but that is probably the only way the wild pokemon know how to show their gratitude and affection for them.
The little two-storey lighthouse-looking cottage that they call home came into sight a few minutes later and a smile cannot help but creep up on her face. It took a long while, but they are finally able to build a home together. The many years of separation, waiting for each other, pining for the other's presence was worth it.
It has been a very blissful year for her, almost like a dream.
She pushed open the door to their home, easily spotting the food on the dining table. He had just finished preparing dinner, it seems. She walked through the corridor, looking at the various pictures that they had hung up on the walls or placed on top of the shelves, the pictures that captured their moments together since they first met more than a decade ago.
She is turning twenty-six this year, and she is still so madly in love with him like she did when she first met him at fifteen.
"Oh, you're back. Just in time too." Volkner appeared from the study, obviously marking his students' homework while waiting for her return. They exchanged a brief kiss with each other and she found herself mesmerised by his blue eyes once again.
"I'm home." She told him with a smile.
"Welcome back." He said with a grin. "Go and take a shower, I'll wait for you. Kayla's eating out with her friends today so it's just the two of us tonight. I'll go heat up the food in the meantime."
"I won't be long." She gave him another peck on the cheek before she headed to their bedroom for her shower.
It's another normal day for the both of them, but to them, normalcy is the thing that they treasured the most.
"Your students did that? Choose option A for every single multiple choice question?"
"I got one better." Her husband told her as they both lounged on the couch after they had finished dinner and washed the dishes, her head resting on his lap as he helped her comb her long hair. "Short answer section, Question 11 was 'Describe how certain steel type pokemon like magnemite, bronzor, and beldum achieve flight capabilities even without the flying typing'. The answer one of my students gave? 'Because they can'. This is literally zero effort, Jas. Zero."
She cannot help but laugh out loud at the funny things her husband encountered in his new line of work. Children really do the most unexpected things at times.
"Let me guess, that was Kenny? The problem child in your class?"
"Got it in one. Please help me beat some sense into him when he is old enough to challenge you to a gym battle."
"It's your job as his teacher to beat the sense into him before he challenges me to a gym battle."
"Ouch. Are you insinuating that your husband is not doing his job properly?"
"Am I?" She asked cheekily before giving a sigh. "At least teaching children is a fun job for you. Some of the challengers I met recently can be really rude."
"Children are cute. Why else do you think I decided to apply for a job at the school?" Volkner smirked before lying down beside her and put the comb aside. "And you know what? Why not let's continue to work on creating some cute kids of our own?"
"H-Here?" She sputtered and felt her face flushing once more. They had been wanting to start a family for a while now, but none of their attempts were successful so far. Still, can they at least do this in the bedroom?
"The bedroom." She insisted.
In response, Volkner simply pulled on a hidden lever at the side of the couch and the backrest fell. Oh right, this is a sofa bed. She found it odd why Volkner insisted on getting a sofa bed instead of a regular one when they were picking out the furniture for their new house. She only knew the real reason when they moved in together.
"It's only the two of us here." He whispered into her ear and she felt his hands roaming across her body. She tried to protest but it was a lost cause because he silenced her with a kiss. Before she could register what was going on, their limbs were already tangled with each other and they were about to start getting rid of each other's clothes when they heard an awkward cough.
"Ahem."
They both jumped up from the couch they were lying on and turned around, spotting an awkward Koga.
"K-Koga?!" Jasmine squeaked out as her hands instinctively made sure that she at least looked presentable and was decently clothed. Thankfully, she is. It would be so embarrassing otherwise to expose herself to her colleague.
"I apologise for intruding and ruining your… private moments. I had no idea that I would be stumbling upon this kind of situation when I entered." The aged shinobi spoke in a deep voice with his eyes closed, probably not wanting to see anything he didn't want to see and giving them some semblance of privacy. "But something urgent came up and I was tasked to make personal contact with every available member of the Thirteen Pillars as per Lance's orders. It's an urgent matter of extreme importance. I hope you understand."
"Couldn't you at least send a message before coming over?" Volkner grumbled.
"I'm afraid secrecy is of the utmost importance. It is why Lance wanted me to make a personal visit to each and every Gym Leader in Indigo except for Giovanni. We don't want to leave any records behind. It's supposed to be off the books."
"Giovanni?" Volkner's eyes turned sharp at the name. "Why is he the exception?"
"That, I don't know. Even if I do, you are not authorised to know." Koga said apologetically, eyes still closed, before turning back in Jasmine's direction. "Be at the Dragon's Den at Blackthorn within the hour. This meeting is kept off the record, secrecy is at Level 10."
"I understand." She replied. Whatever it is, if Lance had deemed this to be a Level 10 secret that she cannot tell anybody, even her husband, then it must be important. The fact that Lance had ordered Koga to make a personal visit already clued her in about the severity of the issue.
The Elite Four member disappeared through the window upon hearing her reply. Her husband sighed as he dragged a palm across his face.
"I hate it when he does that. He really knows how to ruin the perfect moment."
She giggled at her husband's words before giving him a light peck on his cheek.
"Sorry about that, duty calls. I'll make it up to you some other time."
Her husband's eyes gleamed at her words and she immediately regretted saying that.
"Does that mean that I can expect you to wear that the next time we-"
"We will talk about it next time, and I need to borrow Myst for a while." She hurriedly pushed her husband away to prevent him for teasing her further and scurried back into their room on the second floor. She quickly picked out a dress and changed out of her current attire. There's no way she is attending the meeting in her childish teddiursa pajamas dress.
"You know, we have an hour. We could-"
"No." She sent him an annoyed glare as she changed into her dress with him watching her while leaning against the wall of the room.
"Come on, we wouldn't take long."
She continues to give him the look, daring him to continue. He wisely kept his mouth shut.
"I have a bad feeling about this."
Her husband suddenly saying that made her look up at him in surprise. Upon seeing the look on her face, he continued speaking.
"Jas, surely you also find it suspicious that every Gym Leader is called except for Giovanni? This is not normal."
"I know." She admitted as she brushed away the stray strands of his hair away from his face tenderly. "I don't know how to explain it, but I feel as if chaotic times are about to come soon. Ever since the Lilycove Invasion things had not been the same across the world."
If only she can tell him about the prophecy, if only she can tell him how much of a mess both the Indigo and the world is behind closed doors. Sadly, Volkner lost the privilege to know about top secret PWL information the moment he resigned from his position as Sunyshore's Gym Leader. There are things that she cannot tell him without breaking the law, even if he is her husband. He understands because he was once a Gym Leader. There are things he knows about the Sinnoh League that he can never tell her as well. There will always be secrets between the two of them due to the nature of their work, they had made peace with that a long time ago.
They stayed in that position for a little longer, embracing each other. Her instincts are rarely wrong. The last time she felt such a bad feeling in her gut Sunyshore had experienced a siege. Sunyshore was lucky that Volkner and her were both there to stop the situation from spiralling out of control.
"Be careful." He told her in a soft voice, breaking the silence. She felt him gently putting a pokeball in her hand as well.
"Myst will teleport you to Blackthorn and back. If anything happens and you need help, either get out of there or get Myst to bring me there."
"It's just another meeting. I can take care of myself." She tried to reassure him.
"I don't care even if you are the strongest trainer in the world. I am allowed to be worried about you because I'm your husband."
She closed her eyes and smiled as she leaned onto him. This adorable dork.
"I will get going now." She reluctantly separated herself from him and with a mental command, Myst appeared in the room.
'Master, Mistress, you called?'
"She needs a lift to Blackthorn." Volkner smiled at the gallade. "Help me protect her, okay?"
Myst nodded in affirmation. Jasmine gave her husband one last smile before Myst teleported her to her destination.
That uneasy feeling in her gut only grew bigger.
She felt so exhausted.
The surprise sprung on all of them is no laughing matter. Lance has conclusive evidence from a mysterious informant that Giovanni is the true leader behind Team Rocket. That actually explains a lot, like how Team Rocket kept giving Indigo the slip.
Truth to be told, she is still reeling from the shock of the revelation. She had met and worked with Giovanni on more than one occasion. He is a nice and kind man, the role model for trainers and Gym Leaders alike. He was a previous Elite Four member of Indigo and currently the strongest Gym Leader of Kanto.
What Blaine told them was shocking as well. As it turns out, the politics and distrust behind Kanto and Johto ran deeper than she thought. As a trainer and Gym Leader, she is not deeply involved in politics because it is not her job to do so. The Indigo League might want to rethink this arrangement after this crisis is over.
There had always been a distinctive rich-poor divide between the two regions, with Johto consistently being the affluent one. There had always been accusations that Johto had profited at the expense of Kanto even when they are supposed to be one and the same, because they are united under the Indigo flag. According to Blaine, at one point about twenty years ago, the situation between Kanto and Johto got so bad that many important figures of Kanto came together to form a secret organisation called SKIP. Separation of Kanto from Indigo through Peace, that was the motto of the organisation. It doesn't matter if they are politicians, economists, trainers, or researchers. As long as they are a Kantonian and they are experts in their fields who wish for a peaceful separation, SKIP will welcome them with opened arms. Professor Samuel Oak, Agatha, Blaine, Fuji, Bill, were some notable figures who were actually a part of SKIP.
And then everything went wrong from there.
Technically, SKIP was an underground organisation working against the interests of Indigo. There was no way Indigo could tolerate the separation of Kanto from Indigo. Their existence was soon found out by the Indigo President, Kain Briggs. Under his orders, he ordered the total extermination of SKIP. In one night, the entire organisation was destroyed. There were members who escaped with their lives and their identities remained a secret, but SKIP officially disbanded after that day.
Giovanni was once a core member of SKIP. According to Blaine, Giovanni is a patriot fiercely loyal to Kanto and blames Johto for Kanto's constant state of poverty. If Giovanni is really the leader of Team Rocket, then it really isn't hard to make the rational leap of logic that he is trying to continue what SKIP had been doing behind the name of Team Rocket. This time, pushing for Kanto's separation through a more bloody path.
As if that was not enough, Blaine revealed that given Giovanni's personality, the Indigo League now has to prepare for the very real possibility that Giovanni had completed a top secret military project of SKIP, Project Rebirth. It is a military project that aimed to create a pokemon on par with a legendary pokemon using Mew's DNA. That was SKIP's last resort to protect Kanto before their untimely disbandment.
So not only they have to get ready to officially war against the largest terrorist organisation Indigo had ever known and had been plaguing their lands for more than two decades, they need to prepare for the possibility to fight an unknown pokemon that is at the very least, as strong as Johto's legendary beasts combined.
Everything is a mess.
The Indigo President who ordered SKIP's extermination, Kain Briggs, is still in power. None of the higher echelons of the Indigo League, including her, liked him. Not only because he once nearly succeeded in getting in the way of her marriage to Volkner, but he also has this annoying habit of poking his nose into things he has no business knowing or meddling with even when it is not in his authority and jurisdiction to do so. Everybody present in the meeting earlier had unanimously agreed to keep Kain in the dark about this because Lance's mysterious informant had dug up many of Kain's dirty secrets. None of them could bring themselves to trust their own President after that. For now, the Indigo League will have to do this alone because the Government can no longer be trusted to do the right thing, not with what they now know about Kain.
Currently, what they do know is that Team Rocket will be planning a large scale attack on National Day itself. If they really want to catch Giovanni in the act red-handed and defeat Team Rocket in one fell swoop, unfortunately, they can only wait until Team Rocket willingly shows themselves on the big day. Team Rocket is too good at hiding in places the Indigo cannot reach so sadly, a counter ambush is the only way left to exterminate them permanently. Lance's informant had given Lance a huge chunk of information regarding Team Rocket, which includes their known hideouts and bases, which the Indigo League will definitely be keeping a very careful eye on from now till the fight begins.
Even out of her many colleagues, not many know that she is now married and even fewer know the true identity of who her husband really is. She and Volkner simply do not want to draw any attention to themselves after how Kain had nearly prevented their marriage from taking place. The fewer people who know that she is now married to an ex Gym Leader from Sinnoh, the better. All they ever wanted was to lead a normal life. That is really all they ask for.
Lance is one of the few who knows about her marriage to Volkner because he is her direct superior. Koga is another. The last one who knows about Volkner is Whitney due to their friendship. Lance had also pulled her aside after the meeting was over. She remembered very clearly the topic of their conversation.
"Jasmine, I will be frank. We will need all the firepower we can get. Do you think Volkner would-"
"No." She replied immediately. "Volk, he… He had been through enough when he was the Gym Leader of Sunyshore. I know it's selfish on my part, but I don't want him to go back to crime busting if I have a say in it."
She can still remember the days where he had wholly devoted himself to eradicating Team Galactic. She can still remember how tired he had been, how stressed he was due to the self-imposed deadline he had set for himself. She can still remember her heart aching at seeing him working himself to the bone and she would always worry if he would collapse out of exhaustion without warning one day. She remembered how helpless she felt back then because there is nothing she can do for him across the vast sea.
He did all these just so that he could finally be free from his Gym Leader duties, so that he can finally be with her. She made a silent vow back then that she would make sure that he would never go back to that kind of lifestyle ever again if she could help it. He had done enough for her sake. This time, she will be the one to do something for him.
When Volkner first settled down in Johto after they got married, she had discussed with him and made him agree that he is not to tangle himself with any affairs of the Indigo League, even if it is for her. What saddened her more is that she knew that he would help her as long as she asked, because he loves her.
But she saw how getting himself tangled in politics had ruined his life. Even till now, she doesn't know how or why he accepted the position of Sunyshore Gym Leader, but she is starting to suspect that she might be part of the reason even if she has no proof.
"This is the biggest crisis Indigo has ever faced. I won't ask this of you and Volkner if this weren't so serious." Lance spoke almost in a pleading tone, the desperation and stress clear on his face. "Trainers on his level of skill are hard to come by, and his experience in dealing with Team Galactic will definitely prove to be invaluable to us. This is Giovanni and Team Rocket we are talking about."
"We made a deal before Volk and I got married. The Indigo League is not to rope him into any of its affairs."
She stood her ground like an immovable wall. This is Indigo's problem. Getting Volkner, who was a core member of the Sinnoh League, so intimately involved in another region's affairs will definitely be frowned upon by the entire world if this goes public.
And it will definitely go public given people's tendencies to gossip and Volkner's flashy style. He is not one to be subtle. Furthermore, doing a total wipeout of a criminal organisation like Team Rocket is not something that can be done in days or weeks. It will definitely take years. Even after two long years Volkner never managed to fully erase Team Galactic. Going by that logic, Indigo will be in a long battle against Team Rocket for years at the very least even if their plan for conducting a counter ambush is a huge success. Team Rocket is bigger, more cruel, and more dangerous than Team Galactic.
She doesn't want her husband to go through that kind of ordeal again.
She knows he doesn't care about what others think, but she cares for his sake. She doesn't like it when people talk about him behind their backs. She doesn't like it when people doubt his capabilities and talk about what he "could have done better" when he is the one who often got himself stuck doing things he doesn't like doing. Volkner had given up his time and youth for Sinnoh in order to protect these ungrateful morons and such criticisms are what he got in return? 'Most irresponsible Gym Leader in Sinnoh's history' for his 'sudden' resignation?
It made her mad just by reading about it. If ungrateful criticisms are all Volkner is going to get for doing his best in something he never asked to do, then she will not let him get involved in something against his wish ever again.
This time, she will be the iron wall that protects the sun.
"Jasmine-"
"Say another word about this topic, and Giovanni would not be the only Gym Leader you would need to worry about."
She gave her ultimatum right there and then. While she does not boast the same firepower as many of her colleagues, she excels at playing the long game as the best Steel Specialist in Indigo. Even the Dragon Master would think twice before facing her head-on in a battle. If he decides to push his luck further she wouldn't hesitate to tender in her resignation right here just like how Volkner did in Sinnoh.
To her, Volkner is more important than a stupid position.
Lance stared at her in silence. For how long, she doesn't know, but she never averted her firm gaze away from his.
Lance was the first to break the tension when he sighed.
"Fine."
She feels bad for what she did to Lance even if she doesn't regret it. It is times like these that she wishes that being a Gym Leader only means facing against challengers that challenged her for her Mineral Badge.
It was past midnight by the time she reached back home and it would have been way longer if she didn't have Myst to teleport her back home. As always, Jarvis silently opened the door for her the moment she stood in front of it and closed it for her the moment she entered their home. She realised that the light in the living room is still turned on. Upon a second look, she found her husband snoozing away on the couch. He had obviously fallen asleep while waiting for her return.
She shook her head in fond exasperation. She had told him many times to just go ahead and sleep first in their bedroom instead of waiting for her if she returns home late thanks to work, but he never listened. To be fair, she would have done the same too if she was in his shoes, so she cannot really reprimand him for it.
"Volk?" She gently touched his face and called out his name. "It's me. Let's go back to our room to sleep, okay?"
"Huh? Oh, you're back." Volkner yawned as he blinked his bleary eyes. "How did it go?"
"The situation is much worse than I expected." She admitted. "Sorry, I-"
"Cannot tell me about it. It's fine, I understand." He reassured her as they both made their way up the stairs to their bedroom. "I can already make an educated guess though."
She sighed. He has never been too far off the mark when it comes to crime related affairs. It's like he has a sixth sense for it.
She changed out of her dress and snuggled with him on their bed naked as the day she was born, too tired to even put on her pajamas.
"What did you already know?"
"Somebody came to find me while you were away." He mumbled as they hugged each other. "Called themselves the International Police, a new organisation set up by the PWL to handle international crimes and some other affairs that I didn't bother to listen to. I am one of the candidates they want to recruit."
She never felt more annoyed. Not again.
"Obviously, I declined immediately. There were two people who were knocking on the door. One of them was Looker and his appearance is never good news so I got Hippie to send him out of here immediately. She seems very happy to do so."
She cannot help but laugh this time upon hearing what her husband told her.
Hippie is a hypno they raised on their reserve to help them move around Olivine quickly via Teleport if they need it. Hippie's expertise with Teleport is nowhere as good as Myst, but it is more than enough to travel to anywhere around Olivine and a little further than that when pushed. Hippie usually prefers to wander around the reserve than to stay indoors, but never fails to teleport to their side at a moment's notice when they call for her. Not only is Hippie a very impatient hypno, she is also very territorial when it comes to helping them protect and overlook the West Forest, and has a tendency to send any intruders out of the reserve with Teleport immediately. They often joked that she is the "gatekeeper" of the reserve and Hippie takes great pride in her self-appointed job as the gatekeeper.
Her good mood was ruined when Volkner told her another piece of news.
"I know about the prophecy. The International Police representative told me."
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself. Can today get any worse? She doesn't want him to get involved any further. He had given enough when he was a member of Sinnoh's Thirteen Pillars. They want him to give more? Through the PWL this time?
"I still find it hard to believe though, that every single psychic of the PWL all predicted the end of the world. Their predictions had never been wrong thus far. I would be lying if I say that I'm not worried."
Her hug on him tightened. As a Gym Leader, she was let in on this confidential secret some time ago. She had also known of the recent setting up of the International Police. It's the PWL's response in an attempt to avert the prophecy before the foretelling of the end of the world becomes set in stone. It sounds unbelievable and totally outlandish, but it is equally foolish to ignore prophecies made by highly trained psychics. There were many crises that were averted throughout the five centuries since the PWL's founding because the psychics' prophecies predicted them even before it happened.
She knew there's a high chance Volkner would have to get involved due to his previous accomplishments. He's too bright to ignore. She just didn't expect it to be so soon.
"And did I tell you said representative is a thirteen year old girl? Only two years of experience in being a trainer at the most. I know she must be something special for the PWL to put her in the International Police, but I'm kind of worried she is ill-equipped. I mean, she had only officially been a trainer for two years."
"I had heard about her." Jasmine said softly as she closed her eyes and lay beside her husband, hugging him like a body pillow. "Velda Vera, if I remember correctly. Heiress of the Vera Farm. Made quite a stir in the PWL for her idea of setting up an international task force. It united the seven regions by giving them a common goal of stopping the prophecy instead of blindly pointing fingers due to unfounded fear. Smart move, but also a desperate one."
"Yeah, Vel, that's her name. I may not want to join her in becoming a superhero and deal with the bad guys like how I used to before, but I want to at least equip her with the right knowledge and skills before she goes off to do what I used to do. It's only right."
She let out a small smile on her face. That's Volkner for you, always caring about others. Children had always been a bit of a soft spot for him.
"I'm sure you will teach her well."
"Giovanni is a traitor to the League or something, right? At the very least, he is definitely not a friend with how you are excluding him from your meeting."
She sighed. Should have known he would have figured it out somehow.
"Uh huh. It's a lot worse than that. I… I'm starting to think that I should quit being a Gym Leader at this rate. I have no idea how you constantly live in such tense situations when you were purging Team Galactic."
"I'm with you no matter what choice you make, but I want you to be sure of your decision. I don't want you to have any regrets. This is a big decision to make, take some time to think about it. But considering what you just said… that means Team Rocket is involved this time, huh? Just as I thought."
Crap, she just spoke too much.
"You didn't hear anything."
"Too bad, I did. Dear me, what should I do? I just found out a super duper secret of the Indigo League that I'm not supposed to know. Is my beautiful wife going to arrest me?"
"Shh. Your beautiful wife did not hear anything. Just go to sleep."
"How can I when I just found out that my lovely wife is about to go against the largest terrorist group in the world?"
"Does it get any better?" She asked in an attempt to change the topic. "Like, does it get any easier when it comes to fighting crime?"
"It doesn't get better, you just get used to it." He told her truthfully.
She hummed an acknowledgement as she pressed herself as close to him as possible. She asked him another question.
"Should we just run away to another place and not return?"
"Desertion is a crime that automatically sentences you to capital punishment, my dear."
"But if nobody catches us, then there is no punishment."
"I see, how smart of you. As expected from my brilliant wife."
She giggled at the exaggerated tone he used, her hold on him tightening as a result.
"I don't want to ruin the mood, but you are suffocating me, Jas."
"I need to recharge." She mumbled with her eyes close, not loosening her grip on him. "You are my portable charger. Do your job."
She got an answer in the form of a loving kiss pressed on her forehead. She is sure he can see the silly grin on her face, but she doesn't care.
He really is her sun, brightening up every single day of her life no matter how bleak it can be sometimes.
Pokemon and trainer list:
Volkner Tide: Ex Gym Leader of Sunyshore, Electric Specialist
Titles, Accolades and Achievements: Tie for First Place with Flint in the 521st Lily of the Valley Conference, Sinnoh's strongest Electric Specialist, The Sun of Sunyshore, The Yellow Flash
Pokemon Team:
1. Electivire (Franky), male
2. Luxray (Simba), male
3. Jolteon (Jo), female
4. Magnezone (ISpy), genderless
5. Gallade (Myst), male
6. Rhyperior (Tec), male
7. Probopass (North), female
8. Gyarados (Puddle), male
9. Raichu (Squeaky), female
10. Pachirisu (Scrat), male
11. Heliolisk (Bask), male
12. Ampharos (Fluffy), female
13. Vikavolt (Vik), female
14. Eelektross (Whirr), male
15. Lanturn (Glowy), female
16. Rotom (Prime), genderless
17. Porygon-Z (Jarvis), genderless
18. Alolan Golem, (Toss), male
19. Electrode (Boomer), genderless
Jasmine Terbium: The Gym Leader of Olivine, Steel Specialist
Titles, Accolades and Achievement: Johto's Strongest Steel Specialist, Thirteen Pillar of Johto, The Iron Wall of Olivine
Pokemon Team:
1. Ampharos (Amphy), male
2. Steelix (Steely), female
3. Magnezone (Magny), genderless
4. Skarmory (Skia), female
5. Forretress (Forest), male
6. Metagross (Mety), genderless
7. Empoleon (Emy), male
8. Bronzong (Bronzy), genderless
9. Mawile (Molly), female
10. Lucario (Lucy), female
11. Excadrill (Drilly), male
12. Ferrothorn (Thorny), male
13. Klinklang (Clang), genderless
14. Bastiodon (Bobby), male
15. Aggron (Ronny), male